Antaresia stimsoni orientalis (LA Smith, 1985)

Schleip, Wulf D. & O'Shea, Mark, 2010, Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, ZooKeys 66, pp. 29-80 : 36

Antaresia stimsoni orientalis (LA Smith, 1985)

Synonyms:

Antaresia stimsoni campbelli Hoser 2000

Remarks:

Hoser (2000) resurrected the name Antaresia saxacola Wells & Wellington, 1985, but, contrary to Hoser’s (2000) claims that Antaresia stimsoni Smith, 1985 (Hoser provided an incorrect date: Smith 1995) would be a subjective junior synonym of Antaresia saxacola orientalis Smith, 1985 (see Shea and Sadlier, 1999), the date of publication for Smith (1985) preceded Wells and Wellington (1985) as stated by Wells (2009), which makes Antaresia saxacola a subjective junior synonym of Antaresia stimsoni . Nevertheless, because Wells and Wellington did not provide a description for Antaresia saxacola , the name was considered a nomen nudum by Underwood and Stimson (1990) and Shea and Sadlier (1999). We agree with these authors in considering “saxacola” a nomen nudum (APP6), and orientalis replaces it (APP3). Antaresia stimsoni orientalis was not listed by Cogger (1992), Barker and Barker (1994), Cogger (2000) and Henderson and Powell (2007), but was recognized by others (e.g., Ehmann 1992, Kend 1997, Walls 1998, Torr 2000, Wilson and Swan 2008).